Photos: Some Ukrainians celebrate while others prepare for worst

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Russian armoured vehicles drive on the road between Simferopol and Sevastopol on March 17, 2014. Ukraine’s foreign minister denounced Russian “provocations” on March 17, 2014, warning of a troop build-up on the border and the presence of “political tourists” in its eastern regions. “We are very much concerned by the number of Russian troops on the (border),” Foreign Minister Andriy Deshchytsya said after talks with NATO head Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

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A man plays accordion as people dance during celebrations in Sevastopol on March 17, 2014. Crimea declared independence today and applied to join Russia while the Kremlin braced for sanctions after the flashpoint peninsula voted to leave Ukraine in a ballot that has fanned the worst East-West tensions since the Cold War.VIKTOR DRACHEV
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A Ukrainian interim forces officer (L) supervises recruits during a shooting exercise not far from Kiev on March 17, 2014. Ukraine’s parliament on March 17 approved the partial mobilisation of troops to counter “Russian interference” on its soil, a day after Crimea voted to secede from Kiev and join Russia. Ahead of March 16 referendum, Kiev had called last week for the initial mobilisation of reservists and approved the creation of a new National Guard of 60,000 volunteers, as Russian forces encircled Ukrainian military bases in Crimea.ANATOLII STEPANOV
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A Ukrainian interim forces officer (R) talks to recruits during their exercises not far from Kiev on March 17, 2014. Ukraine’s parliament on March 17 approved the partial mobilisation of troops to counter “Russian interference” on its soil, a day after Crimea voted to secede from Kiev and join Russia. Ahead of March 16 referendum, Kiev had called last week for the initial mobilisation of reservists and approved the creation of a new National Guard of 60,000 volunteers, as Russian forces encircled Ukrainian military bases in Crimea.ANATOLII STEPANOV
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Ukrainian border guards patrol the road on the administrative border of Crimea and Ukraine not far the village of Strilkove in the Kherson region on March 17, 2014. President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday took the first steps to absorb the Ukrainian region of Crimea into Russia, in what would mark the most significant redrawing of Europe’s borders since World War II.SERGIY GUMENYUK
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People queue to withdraw money from an automated teller machine (ATM) outside a bank in Simferopol, on March 18, 2014.VASILY MAXIMOV
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Pro-Russian self-defence activist wearing a Russian flag as he walks on Sevastopol embankment on March 17, 2014. Crimea launched a raft of measures on March 17 to facilitate its entry into Russia, a day after the separatist region voted overwhelmingly to split from Ukraine.VIKTOR DRACHEV
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A girl poses in front of a giant wave on Sevastopol embankment on March 17, 2014. Crimea launched a raft of measures on March 17 to facilitate its entry into Russia, a day after the separatist region voted overwhelmingly to split from Ukraine.VIKTOR DRACHEV
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A Ukrainian interim forces officer (R) shows weapons to recruits during a training session not far from Kiev on March 17, 2014. Ukraine’s parliament on March 17 approved the partial mobilisation of troops to counter “Russian interference” on its soil, a day after Crimea voted to secede from Kiev and join Russia. Ahead of March 16 referendum, Kiev had called last week for the initial mobilisation of reservists and approved the creation of a new National Guard of 60,000 volunteers, as Russian forces encircled Ukrainian military bases in Crimea.ANATOLII STEPANOV
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A man plays accordion as another dances in Sevastopol on March 17, 2014. Crimea declared independence today and applied to join Russia while the Kremlin braced for sanctions after the flashpoint peninsula voted to leave Ukraine in a ballot that has fanned the worst East-West tensions since the Cold War.VIKTOR DRACHEV
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A Ukrainian soldier stands atop an armored vehicle at a military camp near the village of Michurino, Ukraine, Monday, March 17, 2014. Addressing lawmakers in Ukraine’s parliament on Monday, Olexandr Turchynov, the acting president, described Sunday’s Crimean poll as a farce that would “never be recognised by Ukraine and the civilised world”. He also signed a decree to mobilise volunteers and reservists.Sergei Grits
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People stand in an empty Lenin Square in central Simferopol on March 17, 2014. Crimea declared independence today and applied to join Russia while the Kremlin braced for sanctions after the flashpoint peninsula voted to leave Ukraine in a ballot that has fanned the worst East-West tensions since the Cold War.FILIPPO MONTEFORTE
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An elderly retired Soviet Navy officer and his wife walk in Sevastopol on March 17, 2014. The European Union and the United States on March 17 slapped sanctions on top Russians and Ukrainians deemed responsible for a breakaway vote in Crimea that has fanned the worst East-West standoff since the Cold War. Official results from Sunday’s disputed referendum showed 96.77 percent of voters in the mostly Russian-speaking region of Ukraine had opted for Kremlin rule in what would be the most radical redrawing of the map of Europe since Kosovo’s 2008 declaration of independence from Serbia.VIKTOR DRACHEV
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A man plays accordion as a woman dances during celebrations in Sevastopol on March 17, 2014. Crimea declared independence today and applied to join Russia while the Kremlin braced for sanctions after the flashpoint peninsula voted to leave Ukraine in a ballot that has fanned the worst East-West tensions since the Cold War.VIKTOR DRACHEV
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A woman walks past a Russian military personnel carrier outside a Ukrainian military base on March 18, 2014 in Simferopol, Ukraine. Voters on the autonomous Ukrainian peninsular of Crimea voted overwhelmingly yesterday to secede from their country and join Russia.Dan Kitwood
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Ukrainian interim forces officer new recruits learn techniques of unarmed combat during a training session not far from Kiev on March 17, 2014. Ukraine’s parliament on March 17 approved the partial mobilisation of troops to counter “Russian interference” on its soil, a day after Crimea voted to secede from Kiev and join Russia. Ahead of March 16 referendum, Kiev had called last week for the initial mobilisation of reservists and approved the creation of a new National Guard of 60,000 volunteers, as Russian forces encircled Ukrainian military bases in Crimea.ANATOLII STEPANOV
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Cossacks, pro-Russian activists, march to take part in a rally outside the regional state administration building in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, on March 17, 2014. The United States on March 17 imposed financial sanctions on seven top Russian government officials and lawmakers to punish Russia’s incursion into Crimea. The list of officials who will see any property, assets and interests blocked in the United States includes Dmitry Rogozin, deputy prime minister, and several senior members of the Duma and advisors to President Vladimir Putin.ALEXANDER KHUDOTEPLY
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A man holds a Crimean flag as he secures the Crimean parliament building in central Simferopol on March 17, 2014. Crimea declared independence today and applied to join Russia while the Kremlin braced for sanctions after the flashpoint peninsula voted to leave Ukraine in a ballot that has fanned the worst East-West tensions since the Cold War.DIMITAR DILKOFF
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People hold Ukrainian flags as they gather in front of the parliament in Kiev on March 17, 2014. Ukrainian troops will remain in Crimea, the country’s defence minister said that day even as media reported the separatist peninsula planned to disband Ukrainian units there. The day before Crimeans voted overwhelmingly to join former political master Russia as tensions soared in the east of the splintered ex-Soviet nation amid the worst East-West crisis since the Cold War.SERGEI SUPINSKY
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A Ukrainian interim forces officer (R) supervises recruits during a shooting exercise not far from Kiev on March 17, 2014. Ukraine’s parliament on March 17 approved the partial mobilisation of troops to counter “Russian interference” on its soil, a day after Crimea voted to secede from Kiev and join Russia. Ahead of March 16 referendum, Kiev had called last week for the initial mobilisation of reservists and approved the creation of a new National Guard of 60,000 volunteers, as Russian forces encircled Ukrainian military bases in Crimea.ANATOLII STEPANOV
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A man plays accordion as people dance during celebrations in Sevastopol on March 17, 2014. Crimea declared independence today and applied to join Russia while the Kremlin braced for sanctions after the flashpoint peninsula voted to leave Ukraine in a ballot that has fanned the worst East-West tensions since the Cold War.VIKTOR DRACHEV
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